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In Reply to: RE: Here you go peeps. 1944 ARRL handbook download posted by Michael Samra on August 15, 2016 at 23:49:04
I always love the adds in the back of these. Used to lust after all that great Ham gear when I was in high school. Imagine a 650 page book for $1.
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So I'm a long-time radio amateur. Licensed in 1976, but I was inactive from 1982 - 2015. 33 years. My interest in DIY tube audio grew from the basic tube-based electronic theory I learned as a young amateur. I've haunted the Asylum and some other places for years now. Then early last year, I suddenly became interested in radio again. I found that I could still copy CW (morse code). I found that I knew a bit more about electronics than I did. I found that I could afford to buy some of the old-time gear from back in the day. And I found that I could fix most of the dang stuff.
I'm back on the air 99% CW, and 100% tube. And I really owe it to my phellow audiophools that I am. It's a lot of fun for me. I'm becoming known as one of the cranks that runs antique gear.
Why bother when the internet and mobile phones have the world instantly connected? I can't explain it. But it's a lot of fun for me to know that with 15 or so 50+ year old tubes and a piece of wire in the backyard, I can meet and converse with a stranger 8,000 mile away.
73 de Steve KE4OH dit dit
Sadly,there are quite a few more that have let their license expire because they either didn't want to spend the 7 or 10 dollars to renew it,or they just plain forgot to do it. Now,it cost nothing to renew it and you can do it on line.I also think there are a portion of them that didn't like the fact that the CW requirement was eliminated,when most of us had to pass at least 13wpm to have any voice privileges.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
I was licensed at 14. Two years later, I could copy Morse by ear at 60 WPM. All told, I was a ham nearly 50 years - Novice, General and Extra Class.
The last time I was on the air (about ten years ago), I simply didn't enjoy it. One of my favorite segments had been moved (80M novice band). There was clandestine phone operation all over the CW portions of several bands. I had difficulty finding someone capable of typical Extra Class CW speeds, and fewer still able to operate QSK. I switched to phone and worked some DX, but the thrill was gone.
When renewal of the license came around a few years ago, I let it lapse. It was just a hanger-on from a bygone era. R.I.P.
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I got into Ham Radio back in Jr. High (1970's). I used to be WN7TTS. I remember the 5 wpm test was a breeze, but the 13 - that had me sweating! As you suggest, I let my ticket expire many years ago - about the time I discovered girls. :-) I think about taking it up again from time to time, so far there seem to be too many other priorities. But I do like the fact that I can now afford the stuff I lusted after way back then. First rig was a Hallicrafters HT40 paired with a Heath General Coverage receiver - man that was hard to tune precisely.
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